Year 1764 (MDCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). [edit] Events of 1764 [edit] January–June [edit] July–December [edit] Undated [edit] Ongoing events [edit] Births - February 11 – Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (d. 1811)
- March 13 – Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
- April 3 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (d. 1831)
- April 13 – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
- May 5 – Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812)
- May 26 – Edward Livingston, American jurist and statesman (d. 1836)
- June 21 – Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)
- August 13 – Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general (d. 1813)
- December 7 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, Marshal of France (d. 1841)
[edit] Deaths - March 6 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
- March 17 – George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer (b. c.1696)
- March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
- April 15 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
- April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German composer (b. 1681)
- May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher (b. 1712)
- June 29 – Ralph Allen, English businessman and politician (b. 1693)
- July 7 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
- July 16 – Tsar Ivan VI (murdered in prison) (b. 1740)
- July 23 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (b. 1703)
- September 2 – Nathaniel Bliss, English Astronomer Royal (b. 1700)
- September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer (b. 1683)
- September 23 – Robert Dodsley, English writer (b. 1703)
- September 26 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar (b. 1676)
- October 2 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- October 23 – Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, Comte Dubois de la Motte, French naval officer (b. 1683)
- November 10 - Joseph Dupleix – French governor general at Pondicherry
- November 20 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)
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